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One of the many rewarding parts about being a cactus grower is there is a type of cactus that can bloom in each season! Winter is no...

Someone emailed me asking for my opinion on some nasty looking roots in their landscape. Girdling roots may sound like a personal...

Hello there again! It is time for another weekly installment from your Main Street gardener; a time where I bedazzle your imagination and...

If you are a frequent skimmer of this blog, you know I like to occasionally like to highlight things I call Crimes Against Horticulture...

I received a bulletin a few weeks ago from Michigan State University announcing the first sighting of a new invasive insect threat, the...

Recently, I was asked a follow up question to my most excellent rose blog (I must say so myself), so in this installment of the Main...

Though the peak of fall color is passing in the Gardens and our Michiana area, I thought I would take time to highlight a group often...

This week’s blog entry from your hip, non-hipster main street gardener is a collection of thoughts and answers to questions I recently...

Today is All Hallows’ Eve, a day for the ghoulies and the ghosties, and one more chance to talk about a plant with a long spooky history...

In this week’s installment of nasty but cool botany, let us chat about plant zombies. No, I am not referring to the popular game, Plants...

And now for this week’s installment in our continuing series on spooky plants (if you’ve missed any of our earlier blogs, check out the...

This week, we continue exploring spooky plants by taking a look at a plant with which we are all familiar: Parthenocissus quinquefolia ,...

Hey there! It is your hip, non-hipsta’ horticulturalist back at you, sipping my coffee and applying my horticultural brain toward the...

Last week, I started an eerie botanical series featuring dangerous or spooky plants with this post about the Autumnal Croci . This week,...

As we move into Fall, I thought I would begin a botanical series of eerie, dangerous and spooky plants as we grow into the spirit of the...

I love September. I do not know about you, but the cooling day temperatures and fairly stable weather patterns are a delight after the...

Goldenrod, genus Solidago , is a much maligned and under-appreciated group of plants. It is often mistakenly blamed for hay fever and...

It has been in my mind to talk about Phlox paniculata , or garden phlox, for some time. Prior to writing this, I thought P. paniculata...

The weather is forecasted to include several ninety plus degree weather days over the next week. Our fairly dry, warm summer has left...

We have had some doozy hot, dry days this summer already. Remember that almost two week stretch of consecutive fry-‘em-up 90 plus days...